SEVERAL CHURCHES and synagogues in the city sponsor holy hotlines, among them the familiar Dial-a-Prayer services. One of them, sponsored by Guideposts, the inspirational magazine founded by the ...

The point of a homily is not just to give us something to think about, or to lead us to make a minor change in our life. It’s to form us to become more like Jesus Christ.

In a new book consisting of reflections based on the 2008 Synod on the Word of God, the secretary for the Synod of Bishops, Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, writes that homilies should not last more ...

VATICAN CITY -- Homilies should be no longer than eight minutes -- a listener's average attention span, said the head of the synod office.Priests and deacons should also avoid reading straight ...

Homilies are not meant to be monuments for the ages, but aids to prayer and worship, helping all of us together get from listening to the Word of God to sharing the Eucharist.

Pope Francis has once again appealed to Catholic priests to keep their homilies short, this time warning that homilies should be no longer than eight minutes or “people will fall asleep ...

Most Filipino Catholics do not regularly read the Bible, and Sunday Masses are the only occasions when they encounter the Word of God. As Pope Francis said, “The homily can actually be an intense and ...

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 4 - Pope Francis said at his weekly general audience in St Peter's Wednesday that priests should avoid over-long homilies, which should be 10 minutes maximum. "Many times there ...

The Vatican next year will publish a collection of never-before-seen homilies delivered by the late Pope Benedict XVI during his private Sunday Masses, most of them penned during his 10-year ...